从戏剧结构看夏洛克的美学性格

在近十年来的有关夏洛克形象的研究中,有一种主要的观点,从民族、宗教角度出发,认为夏洛克是一个令人同情的悲剧人物。本文从结构主义批评的角度对剧本和人物进行了新的解读,认为《威尼斯商人》是一部兼有讽刺和抒情特征的喜剧,夏洛克是讽刺性喜剧部分的主人公,是一个性格贪婪、性情残暴的犹太商人。他的美学性格始终是喜剧性的。

Shylock's Aesthetic Character from the Drama Structure

Chinese Academy has got the abundant achievements on understanding the image of Shylock in recent ten years.A kind of main view drew a conclusion that Shylock was a pitiful tragic character in terms of the angles of nation and religion.The drama and personage were carried on the new analysis in the text from the angle of structuralism criticism,the results showed that "The Merchant of Venice" was a comedy with characters of lampoon and lyrical,as the heroine of ironic comedy,Shylock was one Jew businessman with personality greedy,disposition cruel and ferocious.His aesthetic character belonged to comedy all the time.